Top 100 Encourages Quotes
#1. Perhaps it's a cultural problem: a capitalistic society that encourages people to see negotiations as a zero-sum game - my loss is your gain, my gain is your loss - will encourage an inevitably adversarial exchange.
Anonymous
#2. The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be ... continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching.
Paul Laseau
#3. Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism. ~Angelica Hopes
Angelica Hopes
#4. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism
Timothy Snyder
#5. When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.
Carl Hart
#6. We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.
Elaine Chao
#7. A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
Gary Hamel
#9. Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
T. S. Eliot
#10. My husband is my biggest supporter on earth. He encourages me to put myself out in the world in ways that feel scary, and he's like, "I'm always gonna catch you. I'm always gonna be there for you." My supportive mother and family. Honey, it's such a village.
Reese Witherspoon
#11. An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.
Sam Owen
#12. Our culture encourages us to pursue pleasure at all costs, to look for what will please us in the present and not to think about the price we might pay in the future if we do not delay gratification.
Anonymous
#14. The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes
Jean-Louis Murat
#15. There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
Steve Almond
#16. Consumerism sees the consumption of ever more products and services as a positive thing. It encourages people to treat themselves, spoil themselves, and even kill themselves slowly by overconsumption. Frugality is a disease to be cured.
Yuval Noah Harari
#17. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.
Timothy Snyder
#18. The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
Ethan Zuckerman
#19. Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.
Linus Torvalds
#20. I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Keith Haring
#21. 'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#22. I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.
Alex Gibney
#23. There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'Rourke
#24. And he encourages Lewis to take the same chance he is taking, to count on the "perchance." And Lewis did. For the rest of his life he was a champion of the knowledge-giving power of myth, fantasy, Faery.
Alan Jacobs
#25. peace encourages aggressions, thus igniting war.
Frank Herbert
#26. The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.
Jonah Lehrer
#27. Victor wants his children to have a better life. He encourages them to spend many years in college. Victor wants his children to become physicians, lawyers, accountants, executives, and so on. But in so encouraging them, Victor essentially discourages his children from becoming entrepreneurs.
Thomas J. Stanley
#28. Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust.
Ron Garan
#29. I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.
Amy Grant
#31. Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.
Gurcharan Das
#32. The soul-Self doesn't follow the crowd. It encourages you to speak up when you need to and live by your truth.
Debra Moffitt
#33. The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#34. A good wife always encourages her husband in his interests. For one thing, they keep him occupied and out from under foot most of the day.
Ann B. Ross
#35. No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.
Janice Galloway
#36. A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice
but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
Doris Wild Helmering
#37. When patriarchy dismisses us, it encourages our murderers.
Audre Lorde
#38. More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.
Mark Pocan
#39. almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.
Neil Postman
#40. God wants us to be significant; he wants the world to know us that is why He encourages us to have an active civil position in our nations
Sunday Adelaja
#42. Angels assist us in connecting with a powerful yet gentle force, which encourages us to live life to it's fullest.
Denise Linn
#43. Gratitude not only encourages our hearts, it produces peace. And we could all use a little more peace these days.
Jen Lilley
#44. I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.
Julia Glass
#45. When you say that Christ did not die for all men, you are abusing a weakness of men, who at once apply this exception to themselves, and this encourages despair, instead of turning them away from it to encourage hope.
Blaise Pascal
#46. The beloved is one who nurtures you, trusts you, supports you, encourages you, loves you without conditions. That's you.
Iyanla Vanzant
#47. The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.
Monty Roberts
#48. After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.
Dan Gediman
#49. Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.
Rick Santorum
#50. I'm always experimenting and trying different things. That's what keeps it fun and encourages growth.
Charles Soule
#51. Often, the pressure of the business and fear of having an open position encourages us to hire people who are either not right for the job or not ready to take on the responsibility.
Maureen Chiquet
#52. Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.
Maurice De Saxe
#53. If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
Pierre De Coubertin
#54. I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
Timothy Ferriss
#55. Mentorship is an eye that's not judgemental, soft hearted that boosts the mentee's confidence and encourages him/her to believe in herself/himself.
Euginia Herlihy
#56. Attitudes are enduring tendencies in your mind that show themselves in your behavior as well as your speech. Yoga encourages you to examine all your basic attitudes toward life to discover which ones are dysfunctional so that you can replace them with more appropriate ones.
Georg Feuerstein
#57. An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.
Harlan Mills
#58. Big money encourages tanking. In my opinion, tanking is going on even with a lot of the top guys today - it's quite evident.
Jimmy Connors
#59. Luck is not a word the Society encourages. And it's not something we have much of out here.
Ally Condie
#60. I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.
Hugh Laurie
#61. While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while it encourages the growth of innumerable small businesses on its periphery, thereby creating more jobs.
Louise Slaughter
#63. You're a star
and so am I. I'm a genius
and so are you.
Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power.
Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.
Rob Brezsny
#64. If the horse 'falls' in or out on one shoulder, take the appropriate rein forward so he has nothing to lean on. This effectively encourages more engagement behind
Sylvia Loch
#65. Many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore the ensuing crisis because of confusion, malaise, and yes, even propriety.
Joan Anderson
#66. Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
H.P. Lovecraft
#67. A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#68. If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.
Charlie Cox
#69. The main thing is media attention which is good publicity for the sport. As I'm the only women in this championship I would like to think that it encourages other young females to get into it. Also the media helps me in getting sponsorship.
Liz Halliday
#70. Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#71. Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#72. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt
James Allen
#73. We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
Ralph Regula
#74. This low level inflation encourages economic growth; because it helps people to spend money rather than hoard it; since it will gradually lose value due to future inflation. On the other hand, inflation eats away at savings, so that savers experience a loss of wealth by stealth!
James C Johnson
#75. They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.
Francis Quarles
#76. Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.
Marshall McLuhan
#78. Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
Chogyam Trungpa
#80. A true friend honors and encourages our best self, and they will work at aaving us from self destruction, even if that means being difficult.
Karuna Cayton
#81. You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
Horace Mann
#82. A good relationship is when someone accepts your past, supports your present and encourages your future.
Zig Ziglar
#83. Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.
Michael Josephson
#84. I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.
John Zorn
#86. The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
Daniel Hannan
#87. The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one."
"Don't vote. It just encourages them ...
Billy Connolly
#88. As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.
Francesco Guicciardini
#89. The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.
Stephen Colbert
#90. To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural intelligence, the side of truth, no matter what success I have, there is a prize which I cannot fail to win. I will find it in the depths of my heart.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#91. Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
Taylor Swift
#92. The Bible never encourages blind faith. God provides both rational and empirical proofs to confirm His word.
Domenic Marbaniang
#93. our culture encourages you [with an anxious attachment style] to believe that many of your needs are illegitimate. But whether they are legitimate or not for someone else is beside the point. They are essential for your happiness, and that is what's important.
Amir Levine
#94. When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
Julius Erving
#95. Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
Sylvia Earle
#96. Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.
Virginia Postrel
#97. Indeed, a climate of fear is not one that encourages reflection. However, it is my belief that, instead of using that fear as an excuse, we should recognize it as one of the prime causes of the current situation and try to find a remedy for it.
Albert Camus
#98. There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee
#99. Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.
John C. Maxwell
#100. Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
James Heckman
